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ikea a wt want ' ipods, 1% Jinn Epa ane ame, Soe at if - a in - fe oe Sait Sins ‘-~ B A OSG om eons ee ne ~, : ye * one it “4 ‘ iy rah ye tee ee BO. heal ra . : a Southern Christian Teadership Conference /(SCI£) ET, Ievison cautioned that Rutherford would have about $40,000 worth of bills and inquired if Rutherford ever received any money from Harry Wachtel's office, Rutherford stated they had received nothing and that he knew Wachtel received a check at his office for £56,000, He questioned why Abernathy had the check sent there, Levison told Rutherford that an inter-relifious conmittee ran an ad in which they asked for funds for the Martin tuther King Memorial Foundation and the address was Wachtel's office. They said there is about $30,000 net in Wachtel's office from this ad. . 7 Levison brought up the matter of a person named He Clovd (phonetic) from whom the New York Office of the SCLC had received a letter stating that the SCLC had endorsed the sale of a portrait of Martin Luther King as a fund raising method and describing Me Cloud as the National,4. — Fund Raising Director. Rutherford described Mc Cloud as a . young man loaned to the SCLC for three months by one_Gay \iilnore (phonetic) of the Presbyterian Church and who Tolilows “Prich white Presbyterian Church members. He added that Mc Clou was in Atlanta working out of Ralph's (Abernathy's) old office. Levison recommended that the portrait sale be stopped. Levison aiso urged that the SCLC membership drive not be delayed. He indicated that after the initial response to King's death, in the way of contributions, is over he does not know where the money is going to come from to support the SCLC. He warned that it could be a dying gasp if the opportunity is not seized to raise membership.j ode ' Af Levison was critical of tnareX Young (Executive Vice President of the SCLC) for not havin contacted tne— Field Foundation which, he said, had “earmarked some $275,000", He said it has been one month since they offered the money and Young has not even called them. He stated that there is no point in going to other foundations until this ds done. He then asked how this inaction must make the SCIL look in the foundation field. He said there is no organizatio in Atlanta taking care of these things and that Young has no business being in Marks, Mississippi if he has not handled the Field Foundation contact. He continued to criticize the SCIC stating that, at the moment, the organization is too flimsy, its biggest pillar (King) is gone, and that there is, no organization with its leaders "running all over the place”. . 2% SEQRET